Word: nones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard, the Student Council, the Liberal Union, and the American Veterans Committee have written Washington on the matter, but none of these groups have yet received any replies...
...this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17 years; etc. In case of sudden death or excessively premature resignation or retirement, a "call appointment" is made, which does not affect the periodical replenishment of the staff...
Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Right Note. The planeloads of guests for the opening would include Actress Alexis Smith, oldtime Star Gloria Swanson, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...
...None of the Harvard groups that recently voted to take action on the informer clause issue have received replies to their letters to Washington. These groups include the Student Council, the American Veterans Committee chapter, and the Liberal Union, all of whom have been studying the matter...